As you already suspected, /system/bin/install-recovery.sh is where CF Auto-root modify to gain root access. You can manually restore this file and apply OTA.

Yes That's a better idea. Good luck.

No. OTA only work with stock ROM and kernel.

Last time cannot. Now, I'd say, try it. If fail, no harm.

PS: alternatively can find out by extracting the Ota zip. If there is boot.IMG mean will work without restore to stock. If got boot.IMG.p mean need the stock kernel.

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Dec 11 2014, 01:27 PM

Yup.

that's my normal usage.. mostly just picking up phone and replying to message...

as i was trying to test if Google Fit and Whatsapp are eating battery during idle, i didn't do anything like playing game in that 24 hours... (but has some light browsing...)

just completed the last Beach Zomboss... beach world is after the Dark Age



This post has been edited by cowithgun: Dec 11 2014, 05:46 PM

I always use factory image. Work all the time.

Here is the steps:



At this point, phone in green-android-mode.



If you see something like device not found, etc at this point, that mean your adb drivers is not the Universal driver. Follow these steps to make it Universal (https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3345520&st=600&p=71498268&#entry71498268) or download it from XDA.



The last fastboot is without "-w". That will keep all your data and settings. You will lost Root and custom recovery. Easy to get it back.

You have to ask yourself... is it more fun with CheatEngine, or less fun with CheatEngine?

It's an individual choice...

yup. just play the way u want to play it me, well, u know me.

i noticed high battery usage in Google Service. apparently, i enabled those "Trusted Agent" and face unlock stuff. Was testing it.

Luckily someone notice that and provide ways to disable those.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.p...&postcount=6265

if u didn't root it, don't have custom recovery didn't apply any 3rd party patch (qualcomm, bionic, etc), don't change anything in build.prop, OTA should work.

ps: basically, if it was never rooted before, u can't really do all those anyway...

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Dec 12 2014, 12:45 PM

I usually do a complete backup on my phone before every major OS upgrade.

Typically, I use the "dd" command from "adb" and directly copy the whole hardisk partition of /boot, /system and /data into an IMG file and transfer it into my PC. (Yes, you can use TWRP or CWM too)

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry65566544

Problem arise... been installing lotsa game lately... phone storage is now 13gb. Since my phone only has 16gb, it wont be enough to backup everything.

So, I have to do "dd" and pipe it into "netcat" and store the IMG into my PC directly via USB.

This guy has it all figured out:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818321

Steps to backup the entire /data partition. This partition has all your app, data and setting.

1. Compile netcat or download busybox into your phone
- http://www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/.../busybox-armv7l
2. Make port forwarding between PC and Phone

2. Put nc or busybox into your phone

3. Make it executable

4. Here is the important part, gain "root", dd the /data into netcat

5. Open another command prompt. Important not to use Powershell as there is problem with piping. Start netcat and receiving data. You need netcat for Windows (or ncat http://nmap.org/ncat/) and pv.exe (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvforcygwin/):

You will see some nice ASCII animation Wait till it stop. You have your complete backup.

To view your data, you can mount in any Linux OS. If you have VMware, add a Shared Folder to the directory that contain the data.img. Start your Ubuntu / Linux OS in VMware. In Ubuntu, the Shared Folder can be found in /mnt/hgfs/. Now, just mount it in any terminal.

if your phone is rooted, or custom ROM, modded, patched, etc, try flash into Factory Image (https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images)

if your phone is not rooted, check for App that can control Wifi setting; Free Wifi app, etc.

more specifically, some app can turn on and off your wifi using permission CHANGE_WIFI_STATE. those App could be the one interfering with each other and YOU.

if you know which one, try remove it and test your phone.

if you don't know which one using that permission, download this open source tool:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?..._explorer&hl=en

Run the Permission Explorer app, go to "Permissions", select "CHANGE_WIFI_STATE". You will see list of app that has that permission. Try removing them to find out the culprit.

You can use this App to check many other stuff, like those App that start when you phone start "BOOT_COMPLETE", "RECORD_AUDIO", "INTERNET", etc. You get the idea.

if you just flashing your phone to factory image 5.0.1, even older SDK should work just fine. just need "adb" and fastboot.

Yup. Rooted phone will fail during OTA and sideload update.

Screen off is fading effect for me as well.

usually after every major upgrade, there are many background activities such as scanning and sync-ing. i'd let it settle in a few days before start monitoring for battery usage.

in my non-scientific observation, lollipop has better battery life than kitkat.

the sad truth is, most likely dumb people with their nuke probably gonna destroy us first before any smart android got a chance...

my n4 still strong! not much time to play with it lately... still got a whole new world in PvZ2 i havent complete...

there is still no app / game that run poorly in this phone... this phone is really incredible...

No need.

But I never allow anything I don't know to use Internet.

Impressive! Will take me ages to play without cheats...

there is only 1 site for cheat engine:

http://www.cheatengine.org

Here's how to use it in android:

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2125489/+1940#entry47506652

Android 5.1 is coming!

It brings noticeably performance for Nexus 6!

http://www.androidpit.com/nexus-6-performance-android-5-1

Our kernel has been mostly stagnant but at least the ART improvement will beneficial to us.

No, still with N4. the damn phone gives me no reason to upgrade.